Setting up your own call center entails a lot of monetary and human resource.

You might not have the technichal know-how or the business background to start everything from the ground up but you do have other options such as private placements.

A private placement is an investment right at the core of profit
Private placement is a term for investments in companies that are privately owned.

Most of the Philippine-owned call centers in the Philippines are still privately owned.

What are the advantages of private placements?
The main advantage of private placement investment is that shares of the company can be purchased at very low prices while the company is privately held (pre IPO). Once a company begins trading its shares on a public stock exchange stock prices may rise dramatically yielding a very high rate of return to the private investor.

What are the problems facing investors?

  1. Learning about private placements in time to take advantage of very low prices.
  2. Choosing the companies from numerous offerings that offer the best
    chance to succeed.
  3. Being able to minimize risk

Generally private placement investments can involve high risk and so can show commensurate high rates of return. If the right choice is made the rewards relative to the investment are great. In all proposals a consistent and systematic analysis is necessary to enable an informed decision to be made. Risk is reduced by in-depth company selection process.

In the Philippines, some local call centers would want to expand but need more capital to fund the rollout of the expansion. This poses an opportunity to you as an investor as you can just approach the owners/board of directors of a call center company directly and ask them if they would allow additional investors by way of private placements.

Trying out private placements in other countries all by yourself might not be an easy task but do not fret as their are private equity investment firms and portfolio managers that can help you out in investing abroad. Venture Alliance Partners now involves their shareholders in building portfolio equity.

Just make sure you’ve done your research no matter which path in private placements you would like to take.